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Although much research has been done on employee collective identification with the organization and the work unit, the role of followers’ personal identification with the leader in followers’ work outcomes has not been fully examined. Drawing on research on transformational leadership and social identity theory, the authors examined a partial nomological network of personal identification with the leader and its mediating effects. Results show that transformational leadership was positively related to personal identification with the leader, which was significantly associated with followers’ innovativeness, affective organizational commitment, and turnover intention. In addition, personal identification with the leader significantly mediated the relationships of transformational leadership with followers’ affective organizational commitment and turnover intention. Although personal identification with the leader did not significantly mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and followers’ work outcomes, transformational leaders might indirectly increase followers’ innovativeness through gaining followers’ personal identification.

BF(2) capped dipyrrin dimers were synthesized and have been used to terminate oligomerization to form a series of controlled length oligomers; the crystal structures of the metal complexes were investigated and correlations between the structures and optical properties were established.

Ultrathin multiferroic BiFeO3 (BFO) films with self-assembled surface nano-islands on La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/(100) SrTiO3 substrates are fabricated by a one-step pulsed laser deposition process using the Bi-rich BFO target. It is revealed that these surface nano-islands mainly consist of conductive Bi2O3 outgrowths, which serve as top electrodes for the nanoscale BFO capacitor cells with lateral size of 10–30 nm. The ferroelectric BFO layer underneath these Bi2O3 nanoislands prefers certain complex domain structure with vertical and antiparallel polarization components (the so-called “anti-domain structure”) and reduced domain switching fields. Moreover, these nanoscale capacitor cells exhibit the resistive switching IV behavior, offering opportunities for application in ultrahigh density non-volatile memories.

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Asymmetric reversible diode-like resistive switching behaviors in ferroelectric BaTiO 3 3 3 thin films *Zhang Fei(张 飞) a) , Lin Yuan-Bin(林远彬) a) , Wu Hao(吴 昊) a) , Miao Qing(苗 青) a) , Gong Ji-Jun(巩纪军) a) , Chen Ji-Pei(陈继培) a) , Wu Su-Juan(吴素娟) a) , Zeng Min(曾 敏) a) , Gao Xing-Sen(高兴森) a) † , and Liu Jun-Ming(刘俊明) b) ‡

A causal model of a mechanism related to entrepreneurial decision making was built using information obtained from psychological questionnaires (the Entrepreneurial Alertness Questionnaire, Miao, 2006; The Prior Knowledge Questionnaire, derived from Shane, 2000, and 2 questionnaires developed by Miao - The Entrepreneurial Opportunity and Entrepreneurial Decision Making Questionnaire). Based on data from 327 entrepreneurs, the hypothesized structural equation model was validated. Results indicated that the individual psychological factors (entrepreneurial alertness and prior knowledge) were the antecedents of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and influenced entrepreneurial decision-making criteria. Therefore, it was evident that opportunity recognition played a key mediating role in the model.

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